Paul Mescal

All of Us Strangers review – a supernova of a film

By Hannah Strong

Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal are electric in Andrew Haigh's twist on the modern ghost story, adapted from Taichi Yamada's cult novel.

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Andrew Haigh: ‘I’m a pretty melancholic person’

By Hannah Strong

The British director on the power of crying and how he crafted his heartbreaking new film, All of Us Strangers.

All of Us Strangers – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal are electric in Andrew Haigh's twist on the modern ghost story, adapted from Taichi Yamada's cult novel.

Carmen

By Robyn Quick

Benjamin Millepied’s reimagining of Georges Bizet's classic opera is beautiful to behold, but lacks musical pizzazz.

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God’s Creatures

By David Jenkins

Emily Watson and Paul Mescal play mother and son in Anna Rose Holmer and Saela Davis' Irish fishing village-set drama.

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Paul Mescal is animated by hatred in A Streetcar Named Desire

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

A new production at the Almeida Theatre looks to complement – rather that compete with – Marlon Brando's iconic performance in Elia Kazan's film.

Aftersun

By Savina Petkova

A young father and his 11-year-old daughter take a holiday to Turkey in Charlotte Wells' touching debut.

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Andrew Haigh’s upcoming Strangers makes lovers of Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal

By Charles Bramesco

As the two men form a unique bond, Scott's haunted by the memory of his long-deceased parents.

Aftersun – first-look review

By David Jenkins

Paul Mescal doesn’t quite nail his role as a depressed young father in this emotionally furtive debut drama from Charlotte Wells.

God’s Creatures – first-look review

By David Jenkins

Emily Watson and Paul Mescal enter into a battle of mother-son wills in this gorgeously-mounted but unoriginal Irish thriller.

Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor will find love in a WWI-era romance

By Charles Bramesco

Two of the UK’s preeminent heartthrobs will pool their dreaminess as the leads of Oliver Hermanus’ upcoming film.

Olivia Colman grapples with motherhood in The Lost Daughter trailer

By Charles Bramesco

She’s joined by Dakota Johnson and Jessie Buckley in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s outstanding directorial debut.

Paul Mescal will take to the Irish countryside for an A24 psychodrama

By Charles Bramesco

Co-directors Anna Rose Holmer and Saela Davis are preparing a follow-up to 2015’s The Fits.

Paul Mescal set to star in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter

By Charles Bramesco

The Normal People actor has been cast in the upcoming psychological thriller, Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut.

Normal People faithfully captures the intensity of Sally Rooney’s novel

By Emma Fraser

This complex tale of first love and friendship is brought to life on screen by two terrific young leads.

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